File:(0969) Pandemis corylana - Flickr - Bennyboymothman.jpg

A muggy and drizzly night Not last night, but the previous night, after a nice warm day and highs of nigh on 23 degrees, the sky clouded over as I was just debating whether to run the trap on the third consecutive night...I did indeed as the conditions looked perfect. A few more additions to the garden year list, Slender Pug and Teleiodes vulgella was the pick of the bunch.

Ingrailed Clay seems to have stopped now and Dark Arches is probably going to increase now, Bright-line Brown-eye still having a cracking year and 5 examples of Common White Wave is the most I have ever recorded in one trap before. Also a second brood Engrailed was found on the side of the trap, the slightly early date of this second brood could suggest a third brood may be recorded in August.

Also of interest, I haven't recorded Pandemis cerasana or heparana this year yet (both recorded last year) but I got my first corylana last night, suggesting I may have missed these two common species this year.

Will try trapping again tonight, after a break last night (cool and clear)

Catch Report - 17/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Slender Pug [NFY] 1x Double Square-spot [NFY] 4x Dark Arches 3x Dot Moth 1x Green Pug 2x Freyer's Pug 2x Large Yellow Underwing 3x Common Footman 1x Engrailed 2x Flame Shoulder 12x Mottled Rustic 22x Heart & Dart 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Flame 2x Grey Pug 2x Light Emerald 2x Marbled Minor 2x Green Silver-lines 2x Garden Carpet 7x Brown Rustic 1x Vine's Rustic 1x Clouded Silver 1x Clouded Border 1x Spectacle 1x Maiden's Blush 1x Orange Footman 5x Common White Wave 1x Common Swift 1x Mottled Beauty 6x Bright-line Brown-eye 8x Uncertain 1x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Large Nutmeg

Micro Moths

1x Epiblema uddmanniana [NFY] 1x Endotricha flammealis [NFY] 1x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla [NFY] 1x Blastobasis lacticolella [NFY] 1x Archips xylosteana [NFY] 1x Pandemis corylana [NFY] 1x Teleiodes vulgella [NFY] 5x Tortrix viridana 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 1 Emmelina monodactyla 1x Epiphyas postvittana 4x Celypha lacunana 1x Hedya nubiferana 1x Udea olivalis 1x Udea prunalis 3x Aphomia sociella 4x Aleimma loeflingiana 3x Chrysoteuchia culmella